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Could this be Earth’s final year? Doomsday scientists share a terrifying black hole warningA new study says the universe may not expand forever and could shrink one day. Scientists found that dark energy may change over time, whic...
Astronomers detect record-breaking ‘Space Laser’ from merging galaxies 8 billion light-years awayAstronomers have detected the most distant and brightest "space laser," a megamaser, originating from a galactic collision when the univers...
How will the universe end? Scientists explore its possible futureThe universe, which originated 14 billion years ago in the Big Bang, remains to evolve. Stars and galaxies form, age, and eventually die, w...
Five-galaxy merger soon after the Big Bang captured, James Webb Space Telescope discovers rare phenomenaThe James Webb Space Telescope discovered an exceptionally rare five-galaxy merger system 800 million years after the Big Bang. Nicknamed J...
Black hole 36 billion times Sun’s mass discovered, likely the biggest ever in spaceScientists have spotted a giant black hole. It is 36 billion times the mass of our Sun. This black hole resides 5 billion light-years away....
What secrets do NASA's 25 stunning Chandra X-ray photos reveal? Here is all you need to knowNASA has shared 25 X-ray photos captured with Chandra with the public in observance of the observatory's 25 years of existence. These photo...
Shakti and Shiva: German Max Planck Institute identifies building blocks that created our galaxy, Milky WayAstronomers have discovered the earliest "building blocks" of the Milky Way galaxy, named 'Shakti' and 'Shiva', dating back 12-13 billion y...
Astronomers unlock the secrets of 8 billion year old radio burstsAstronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery after detecting a fast radio burst (FRB) that occurred 8 billion years ago. This particula...
NASA's Webb Space Telescope captures Question mark-shaped cosmic body, baffles scientistsDo you know that our own galaxy Milky Way will collide with Andromeda galaxy some four billion years from now? Read in detail what experts ...
Indian researchers discover three supermassive black holesThe rare occurrence in the nearby universe indicates that small merging groups are ideal laboratories to detect multiple accreting supermas...
- Astronomers spot elusive giant black hole couples
Washington, Oct 4 (IANS) Astronomers including one of Indian-origin have identified five pairs of supermassive black holes, each containing...
Milky Way dotted with 100 million black holes: StudyScientists assume most stellar-remnant black holes - which result from the collapse of massive stars at the end of their lives - will be ab...
- Merging galaxy clusters cause biggest bang in universe
New York, June 8 (IANS) Two galaxy clusters are banging into each other at supersonic speeds and merging together to create a larger galaxy...
- Universe has 10 times more galaxies than previously thought
Washington, Oct 14 (IANS) There are at least 10 times more galaxies in the observable universe than previously thought, said astronomers.
Gravitational waves form 10 million years after black holes mergeUntil now, it was not possible to conclusively predict the point at which gravitational waves are triggered and spread throughout space whe...
Hubble views a galactic mega-merger: NASAThe Hubble Space Telescope has viewed a galactic mega-merger - a product of a collision between two good-sized galaxies, which is slowly ev...
Hubble captures two galaxies merging 230 million light-years awayAs the merging process continues, individual stars are thrown out of their original orbits and placed onto entirely new paths.
Black holes could grow as large as 50 billion Suns: StudyThe study suggests that without a disc, the black hole would stop growing, meaning 50 billion Suns would roughly be the upper limit.
Galaxy that spits out 800 new stars every year discoveredThe discovery is the first to show that gigantic galaxies at the centre of massive clusters can grow significantly by feeding off gas stole...
Scientists find out what happens when two same-size galaxies collidePreviously, astronomers thought that when two galaxies smash into each other their gas clouds get churned up and seed the birth of new star...